The Tacoma times. [volume], May 13, 1912, Image 1

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HOME EDITION
Are you writing that $-."> prize
essitjr on Tacoina and the Festo?
It'll help Tacoinu grow greater.
> VOL. IX. NO. 123.
SOCIALISTS AROUSED,TO FIGHT HANFORD RULING
TftFT IN TO
■ TRY TO TAKE
CONVENTION
I,in. Up Today.
For Roosevelt (uncontested),
For Tnft (uncontented), 137)4.
Contested, 228.
Klected today, 10.-
Whether there are to be two
conventions at Aberdeen Wednes
day to select Washington^ 14
delegates to the national conven
tion, depends upon the state cen
tral committee which meets to
morrow.
Taft leaders are openly boast-
Ing that this pro-Taft committee
•will arbitrarily disregard the
Roosevelt-UaFollette majority,
and will seat every contested Taft
delegate in the convention on
temporary rollcall, which was the
cause of course of the absurd bolt
here.
The program for the proposed
convention steal includes an ar
rangement to admit no one into
the convention hall unless lie has
a certificate ■ signed by B. W.
Coiner.
The secretary of the commit
tee, Edgar C. Snyder, Seattle, is a
progressive.
Hay Has Cold Feet.
Gov. Hay, although a Taft man,
has been attempting to dissuade
the Taft. leaders from carrying
out this program, so as to avert
his own defeat for re-election.
Insurgents, however, have little
hope for a "square deal" and they
are preparing to use physical
force if necessary to gain admis
sion to the hall.
Prepare To Kill
Rev. Richeson
By Vnited Press Leased Wire.)
BOSTON, May 13. —Investiga-
tion into the mental condition of
Rev. C. V. T. Rlcheson, con
demned to the electric chair for
the murder of his sweetheart.
Avis Linnell, was continued today
with Doctors Stedman, Frost and
Tuttle conducting the examina
tion.
Preparations for the electro
cuting of the unfrocked pastor
were begun today at the Charles
town state prison, where Riche
son is to meet death May 19. The
death call was put down in order
and the electric wires inspected.
CASE SCORES HAY
(I»y United Press Leased Wire.)
CENTRALIA, May 18. —Otto
Case Saturday spoke to the larg
est political gathering yet held
here In his campaign for gover
nor. He said Governor Hay had
tried to steal his scheme for im
proving logged off land and he
denounced the governor for try
\uu to build up a state political
•machine.
117 r J
Wanted
To Buy
■ Property, on following streets:
i A atreet.
Pacific avenue. ./ ;-,-.
C street. - '•"■'■-*''*:-""^^^K"
D street.
E street, north of 18th." ■ • ■
t\ Tacom» »v«. north of 16th, '■ \\
a street north of 11th.i-._*v<v?"
■ Yakima ay. north of 11th.
X atreet north of ; 13th ; _
' St. -Helens avenue. - - ." .'.
Puyallup avenue.';- ■■■' .■.. t-..
, j Jefferson avenue. • ;*;';* ."-•"; ?.''s
1)1 vision avenue, <;-'-• " : '•• •' -
And other clowe-in dUtrlcts.
During the paat 10 day* we
have purchased 125,000 worth and
have that much more to buy. with.
Will f pay f cash. Price*: mu»t, be ,
low. What have you to offer? 1.--if
Calvin Philips & Co.
11l California Bldg.
Little Hunchback American Who
Planned New China, Home a Wreck
GENERAL HOMER LEA.
A few years ago Homer Lea, a
Los Angeles boy, went to Stanford
university from the high school.
He was a hunchback, crippled in
body, but of wonderful brain.
A year later he became associ
ated with the little band of men
who were even then dreaming of
a new China.
There were meetings and
strange feasts in the heart of San
Francisco's Chinatown, at which
crippled American, Lea, was an
honored guest. He left school
and disappeared.
A year later an American trav
eling far in the interior of China
found the ex-Stanford student
drilling and training a regiment of
Chinese.
He developed a military genius
which startled the world through
his book "The Valor of Ignor
ance." While in China, Lea, in
1909, undertook the relief of the
Emperor Kwank Hsu, but reached
HIRED MAN 65
SHOOTS WIFE 18
(By United Press Leased Wire.)
OLYMPIA, May 13. —Posses
are searching the woods south of
Tumwater for John Tumble
bloom, 65, who yesterday shot
and probably fatally wounded
Mrs. Anna Thomas, aged 18, at
her ranch. The cause of the
shooting is unknown.
Mrs. Thomas' husband Is in a
Portland hospital, and it Is said
he hired Tumbleibloom- to take
charge of the ranch while he was
away.
Insane Patients
See Big Circus
(By United Press ; Lnw«d Wire.)
SACRAMENTO, May 18.—The
slate hoard Vof >" control ii today
cheerfully approved * the bill for
six • hundred circus tickets 1 issued
to patients at'the Nap*: state hos
pit last Friday. - Superintendent
Osborne had 800 each of the men
and : women JJ, inmates) taken :r, to
town .on i special I trolley\; cars ,- and
shown I the i wonders ;• of I the M me
nagerie and the "big t«tt."
The Tacoma Times
THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA
Pekin too late and had to flee.
The strain of operating the In
ternational chess board, while
others furnished the brawn, broke
him physically. "He has a fight-
Ing chance for life," is what the
doctors have told him.
So this little man, the hunch
back with the wonderful brain,
who engineered the China revolu
ton, and was the right hand man
of Dr. Sun Vat Sen, when the lat
ter had a price on his head, Is
home to fight the hardest battle
of his life.
WELL KNOWN TACOMA MEN, THEIR BUSINESS AND THEIR HOBBIES
Is there any luck in a horse
shoe?
Twenty-five years ago as Joe
Bachrach, a clerk, was plodding
up the dsuty road from the N. P.
dock, his dreams were of the Ori
ent, a good clerkship with Lil
llenthal & Co. in Yokohama. He
had just interviewed the captain
of an Orient bound steamer. He
didn't hav^ much money, but he
did have a fund of energy and
was quick to act on impulse.
He stumbled ov«r something
In the road and turning, found a
horse shoe, Just a common horse
shoe that had been thrown by
tome truck horse hauling freight
to the steamer. The points stuck
out right for luck.
Right then Joe Bachrach, clerk,
decided that he did .not want to
go to Yokohama. He was going
lo remain in Tacoma and make
his fortune. He carried the
horse, shoe home.
Z~<:?ii Brought i Him y Fortune. > v ,
;-. Today Joseph Bachrach, ; mem
ber of the firm of Feist & Bach
rach, dry good*' merchants, has
that fortune. }« He's I still '■ got ' that
horse shoe and .it Is \ gilded I and
decorated with '. handpal ted j flow
ers.
; i '.'That may sound ' as ;if I'm : su
perstitious," . said Mr. Bacfcracb,
when the Times : man iquestioned
him ; about It. "But If there was
any I charm \, It •' surely » worked > or
me."
Ss} It • might or t might p not Ji nave
be«n the - horseshoe. The Time*
man is iucllc«d to believe It was.
tbts vital euergy of the It ■*■« of the hardest in
cl»rk« tbat molded him laU»l the terviewg the Tim«« man ev<
rich merchftat. ' • [ tacked. There .was a. constant
TACOMA, WASHINGTON. MONDAY, MAY 13, 1912.
IX. REBELS
BEATEN, IKE
LAST STAND
• PRINCIPAL FHATURKS OK •
• IHNI 111 it A I I 1,1 -.. •
• 1,000 federals and rebels •
• killed and wounded In 12 •
• hourß' fighting in the desert •
• from daylight until night. •
• 5,000 troops on each side •
• engaged. •
0 Foderals routed rebels •
• and captured 10 cannon and •
• wgouloads of hand bombs. •
• Rebels destroyed train, •
• brigades and supplies in re- •
• treat. •
9 Insurrectos fled over foot- •
• hills. 0
• General Orozco admitted •
• defeat, blaming reverse on •
• superior artillery of federals. •
(By United Press leaned Wire.)
KKLLAXO, Mexico, May 1.1.—
General Ororro, commander in
chief of the rebel army, admitted
today that his (•,> ■<•■-«. were defeat
ed at Oonejos and that lie hus Is
sued a general order for all rebel
troops to mobilize at Kellano.
(Hjr United Press Leased Wire.)
CONEJAS, Mexico, May 13.—
Gaining possession of this town
after 12 hours' fighting on the
desert 300 miles south of the
American border in which t lie
rebels were put to rout the vic
torious Mexican federal army un
der General Huerta is planning
today complete annihilation of
the rebel forces.
The insurrectos fled over the
foothills toward Escallon, 14
miles to the north, where it le be
lieved they will make their last
stand today. They have been con
structing fortifications and
trenches there for two « m k«.
A steady and accurate cannon
ade by the federal artillery was
responsible for the victory. The
rebels withstood the withering
fire for several hours and then
began to evacuate their positions.
retreating slowly and leaving
many dead and wounded.
Toward nightfall with General
Tellez, in the rear of Huerta's
forces, maneuvering to flank the
rebels and cut off their retreat,
Orozco's vanquished troops aban
doned the fighting and fled has
tily.
ARTICLE; 3—JOSEPH BAOHRACH
Times plays no favorites.
Dahl must have known that the Times had no grievance against him, but he was ill enough advised
to hire attorneys and try to make the Times pay him damages.
Dahl lost. It was a foregone conclusion that he would lose. He should never have gone into court
at all. It was an expensive trial. It cost Dahl nearly $2,000.
This newspaper does not carry a chip on its shoulder. But when attacked, it is ready to fight at
all times. It makes no difference whether it is the least powerful or most powerful man in Tacoma.
The Times fights fair, but fights haixl.
Preacher Denounces Astor Will;
Says Money Should Go To State
(H.v United Press Leased Wire.)
11111 MHIJ'KIA, Miiy IS. —
Have the government seixe all but
$2,000,000 of every multi-mill lon
iiirc's fortune upon the possessor's
death.
Let the government ann and
run all telegraph and telephone
coiniMtiiies.
Take over for government con
trol the Standard Oil company
and the tobacco trust.
Have the government confiscate
all ,<mi I hinds.
"these are some of the methods
of preventing the accumulation of
swollen fortunes advocated by
the Rev. George Chalmers Rich
mond, rector of St. John's f'Jjits
ccpnl church here, whose bitter
denunciation of the will of the
late Colonel John Jacob Astor has
created a furore.
The Rev. Mr. Richmond com
pared the terms of Astor's will,
handing down the bulk of his
great fortune to his son, will that
of Dr. Francis Bacon, the late
surgeon of Yale university, who
out of a $400,000 estate left
$10(1,0,10 to be used In the fight
on tuberculosis, a few thousand
to other worthy causeß and the
remainder to help poor boys
through Yale.
Astor Is Scored.
"We are filled with patriotic
stream of women going in and
out of the atore. Mr. Bacbrach
had seated himself near the
shame after reading the will of
John Jacob Astor," declared the
clergyman. "He stands forth at
the Judgment bar before the
Christian conscience of the Amer
ican people.
"It is a disgrace to leave a for
tune of $50,000,000 In these
days."
May riwrt Will.
New York is also eagerly dis
cussing whether the heir to be
born to Mrs. Madeline Force As
tor In July may not upset the
colonel's will. In a similar case
sometime ago a babe unborn at
the time of its father's will re
ceived half the estate by court
action.
The question as to who will be
the Mrs. Astor hangs on the out
come.
door. Ht had a nod and a smile
for every one, knew most ot
them by name, and they knew
him.
He was continually saying,
"Excuse me," in the middle of
the sentence to hurry away and
find a clerk, display a bit of
goods or see that gome one wax
made comfortable and at home.
He Worked Hard.
How Joe Uachrach, the clerk,
grew to Joseph Bachrach, rich
merchant, is told by hts simple
statement that he began clerking
for Gross on Tacoma avenue aft
er finding the horse shoe. Mr.
Feist, now touring' Europe, had
a small store, not much stock or
money, but plenty of energy.
It was natural that the two
should become partner?, move to
Pacific avenue, buy their present
store building; buy the adjoining
property, have a Bargain Annex
on C near Thirteenth, and then
sell the adjoining property to
buy the corner at Thirteenth and
C.
Mr. Bachrach's business bob
by is discounting bills. He has
a wife and two fine children, a
boy and girl. "All I can afford,"
be says. He's keeping that horse
shoe but not making a collection
of them. ■
Princess Rewards Him
SANTA BARBARA, Cal., May
IS.—A check for $40 from Prin
cess Rosplgllosi was received to
dny by George Norton, who found
a cigarette case worth $1,000
I which the princess had lost.
HOME^JDITION
WKATHKR FOJIBX\ANT.
Fair tonight and Tuesday;
cooler Tuesday.
At left, a seashore snapshot of
Mrs. Madeline Force Astor; on
right, Mrs. Ava . Aittor and her
daughter. Ilelow, Vincent Actor,
who was willed most of the giant
fortune. "-■'■*.' .■:.-, '
No Supper. Now
Both in Court
"He threw me ou-t and wouldn't
let me go back," Katherine Ken
ner told Justice Evans of her hus
band George, a rancher six miles
west of Roy.
"I went out to work and came
home. No wife, no supper, no
nothing," Kenner told Constable
Ashbv who arrested him on a
warrant charging abandonment
and non-support.
Man Sleeps In Same Room With
Dead Man, Doesn't Know It
ii .1. i\;tinm siept ihhi ilium
In the St. Paul mill boarding
house In the same room with a
dead man and did not know It.
He almost had heart failure when
he heard that J. McCain, aged 65,
his roommate, wai dead Tory
Herval, the chambermaid, nearly
died of fright when she tried to
wake McCain up.
Last night when Karllch went
CLOSEI^OOJS OPEN ,
TO A ~" JWANT
w ; —pi
• -";.* J Yon » can ten v reach ) the 5 Inner ost offices iof I the buyer and 5
employer by a Titties "want."
Along « with the ! Indispensable copy ,of i the 1 dally paper; goes I you*
"want : •A.'gQ&i&'fa&a&tfiJs
IP-■''■ Sueh Tads as autoe for sale, machinery for sale;situations wanted,;,
etc., often receive the attention of the busiest men in Tacoroa when
■ placed (in The Times.
■:„'■'•',■■■; Remember, too, no i other Tacoraa ; paper reaches ;bo \ many } men ;
in this vicinity as the Times.
: MOST EVERYBODY READS THE TIMES.
30 CKNTS A MONTH.
TAKE ACTION
IN NATIONAL
CONVENTION
■ lMH\\\l«tlls. Iml . Ma? IS.
—Overshadowing In interest even
11ii' mi <• for the presidential nom
uiiiiiiiii, delegated to the national
NocintlHt convention here today
lined ' up holtilly behind a more*
input to compel Judge Hanford of
Seattle to .recall Ills decision an
nulling the citizenship papers of
Leonard Olsvon of Tacoma }or
luce impeachment proceedings.' I
Congressman Victor Berger of
Wisconsin promised on the floor
of the convention today to take
action in congress.
Old Parties Help.
Scores of telegrams from r«
publlcans and democrats over the
country promising to help the so
cialists in their effort to prove
that Judge Hanford permitted
personal prejudice to rule hi*
action, were read.
The decision, the delegates Buy,
will be carried to the United
States court for reversal if n«i-es
«iiry, and they freely charge that
the decision is the direct result
of Judge Hanford's opposition to
the recall of the Judiciary, he be
lieving, they say, that by depriv
ing Olsson of citizenship -he
would curb agitation in the west
In this direction.
The morning ttesglon was devot
ed to a discussion of Hanford'B
decision.
Candidates for president will
be nominated Friday.
Kxpeits I ii.nl Battle.
General Huerta 1b being show
ered with congratulations today.
He predicts the complete discom
fiture of the rebels At Escallon.
Colonel Trucy Aubert, of the
federal forces, who was shot In
the leg, is not seriously wounded.
Chink Robs Chink
(Ry United Presx Leaned Wire.)
MEDFORD, Ore., May 13.—W0
Lee, a Chinese laundryman of this
city, was robbed at an early hour
today of JBOO In gold by a.i un
known hCtnaman. In a struggle
v ith the robber Wo suffered a se
vere cut over the heart.
Wo I.if waa asleep in his room
in the rear of the laundry when
the robber attacked him.
to bed McCain was lying appar
ently asleep. When Karlich arose
tils moraine McCain had not
moved, and Karlich thought he
was sleeping. Tory went to waka
McCain and when she shook him,
his mouth.fell open. Tory scream
ed and fled.
McCain suffered an attack of
heart trouble early last night. H»
hag no known relatives.